Word: vanillaism
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...difficult to figure out who's responsible for politics' vanilla flavor. Those self-important Cross Pen/paisley tie/hair gel gov jocks sucking your section leader's posterior become politicians when they grow up. And if you don't believe me, you didn't attend the IOP schmoozefest at Winthrop House last year, when undergraduates were introduced to the House of Representatives' newly elected members. As conversationalists, these Congressional airheads ranked slightly behind CPA's and slightly ahead of dead people...
...hear that sound before, maybe long ago. It's the James Brown beat that's now in a rapper's groove, or the recycled '60s riff in a current dance- floor hit. It's the steam heat of the early '80s hit Under Pressure recycled in the vanilla-rap hit Ice Ice Baby, and the streak of the funk classic Super Freak revived for M.C. Hammer's U Can't Touch This...
...Vanilla Ice ran into the problem when he was accused of lifting part of the 1981 song Under Pressure, written by David Bowie and Queen, for his No. 1 hit $ Ice Ice Baby. When Bowie and Queen threatened a lawsuit, the rapper eventually added them to the composer credits. Two years ago, the rap group De La Soul was slapped with a $1.7 million suit by the '60s group the Turtles for using an uncredited bite of their 1969 song You Showed Me. M.C. Hammer avoided such problems by sharing credit with Rick James, who wrote Super Freak, before sampling...
Cole calls dance tunes "the rock music of the '90s," and it's not necessary to have the vision of Nostradamus to see how dance music is dominating the sound and sales of contemporary pop. M.C. Hammer, Madonna, even the rightly reviled Vanilla Ice have taken dance, with some rap overlay, and spiffed it up for the mainstream. "It started as a minority situation," says Clivilles, a deejay in a New York City club when he met Cole five years ago. "But now it is moving into major markets...
...Vanilla Ice with special guest Queen March 17 at the Orpheum...